novel-writing
Oct. 6th, 2005 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7You know, I had pretty much decided that NaNoWriMo was a stupid idea and I wasn't doing it again. I've won it every year I've done it, thereby proving that writing 50,000 words in a month is absolutely no trouble for me. The first year I did it, my grandma died in the second week and at the end of the third week I left for Europe for a week, and yet, I still reached 50k before I left with no trouble. The second year I did it, I was working full-time in a job I hated, and managed to do it. The third year, I was unemployed and wrote an entire novel start to finish with a whole structure, and then proceeded to spend the next six months tearing it apart and hating it to the point that I can't look at it anymore. Indeed, during 2004 I wrote well over a million words and not one of them has been published.
Should I do it for a fourth year?
Well, I just signed up. So I guess I will. I guess I've been pretty blocked this year. Maybe it'll be good for me. Which project should I work on? Should I just say what the fuck and do a fanfiction epic, such as I've returned to in moments of crisis? Should I work on the Old New Original Fantasy Novel that I have precisely three pages rewritten on after several years' hiatus? Or should I, as per the guidelines, start over entirely from scratch yet one more time?
I dunno. Who else is doing NaNo? I should start a community, except I think I'm already in like three. I did meet a lot of good people last year, most of whom are still on my flist because they were totally worth knowing.
Also I don't feel like moderating any communities. Someone else, start or reactivate a community for me. Or at least, other friends doing NaNo, leave comments so I can feel like I'm a part of it. :) I really don't know what I'll do this year. It doesn't make any sense for me to do it, except that I've sort of decided I'm not running away to Japan, so I need something else to distract me from how fucking stupid my life is.
Come on, Inter-Nets: Take away my pain with shiny, shiny distraction. It's what you're for.
Should I do it for a fourth year?
Well, I just signed up. So I guess I will. I guess I've been pretty blocked this year. Maybe it'll be good for me. Which project should I work on? Should I just say what the fuck and do a fanfiction epic, such as I've returned to in moments of crisis? Should I work on the Old New Original Fantasy Novel that I have precisely three pages rewritten on after several years' hiatus? Or should I, as per the guidelines, start over entirely from scratch yet one more time?
I dunno. Who else is doing NaNo? I should start a community, except I think I'm already in like three. I did meet a lot of good people last year, most of whom are still on my flist because they were totally worth knowing.
Also I don't feel like moderating any communities. Someone else, start or reactivate a community for me. Or at least, other friends doing NaNo, leave comments so I can feel like I'm a part of it. :) I really don't know what I'll do this year. It doesn't make any sense for me to do it, except that I've sort of decided I'm not running away to Japan, so I need something else to distract me from how fucking stupid my life is.
Come on, Inter-Nets: Take away my pain with shiny, shiny distraction. It's what you're for.
